Apartment on Via Falcone Frames Warm Modern Living In Marcianise Italy
Apartment on Via Falcone brings a bright, contemporary apartment to Marcianise, Italy, where ESFA architetti crafts a continuous day area around light and tailored joinery. Kitchen and living remain visually connected yet can close off when needed, maintaining fluid movement for everyday life. Throughout the home, stone-effect porcelain and measured color accents build a warm, refined rhythm that grounds the interior in a calm, urban character.
Soft daylight filters through sheer curtains and settles on the pale sectional, the low black coffee table, and the stone-effect floor that stretches wall to wall. A single circular ceiling light anchors the room, while smaller spots track across the ceiling and draw the eye toward the tall shelving at one end.
This apartment in Marcianise is organized as a flowing day zone, where living room and kitchen share one continuous floor and a consistent palette. ESFA architetti relies on custom cabinetry, sliding glass panels, and a careful mix of wood, metal, and textiles to set boundaries without building hard partitions. The result is a home tuned through color, texture, and storage rather than doors alone.
Layering Living Zones
In the main room, a generous L-shaped sofa floats between the television wall and the deep shelving system, so circulation wraps easily around its edges. The long media unit in warm wood runs almost the full length of one wall, anchoring the television and balancing the darker shelving opposite. A mustard-toned armchair near the window introduces a small jolt of color that picks up the warmth of the wood and echoes in other rooms. Two concealed glass sliders sit within the millwork, ready to close off kitchen and living when needed while preserving a sense of one continuous volume.
Color Blocking Rooms
The kitchen continues the stone-effect porcelain underfoot, which links both zones and keeps the floor visually calm. Tall pantry and appliance fronts in a muted golden tone line up beside wood cabinetry, creating a graphic color block that reads clearly against the white walls. A black oval dining table with matching chairs in soft yellow fabric sits at the center, tying back to the living room palette while giving the eating area its own identity. Objects on the counter and a cluster of decorative plates add small notes of pattern without overwhelming the pared-back surfaces.
Custom Storage Walls
Throughout the apartment, storage works as architecture. The living room shelving system mixes open niches, glass-fronted cabinets, and wood drawers, so everyday pieces sit beside display objects within a single strong frame. In circulation zones, tall closets and paneled walls in wood and soft-colored finishes conceal doors and storage, turning passageways into composed backdrops. The bedroom follows the same strategy: a wide headboard banded in dark and mustard tones stretches across the wall, integrating nightstands and lighting into one horizontal element. Floor-to-ceiling curtains soften the daylight and keep the stone-effect floor from feeling too hard underfoot.
Bathrooms With Contrast
Each bathroom pushes the palette further, using color and texture to give compact rooms a clear character. One room pairs deep blue vertical tiles with a vivid red-orange floating vanity and a round mirror, so the neutral floor and white sanitaryware act as calm counterpoints. The other bathroom leans on warm wood, with a broad timber vanity, vessel basin, and large mirror framed by gray stone-effect surfaces. Glass partitions, slim fixtures, and light curtains keep natural light in play, preventing the darker tones from feeling heavy.
Back in the main living area, the continuous porcelain floor and recurring wood elements tie every room together, no matter how bold the accents become. Daylight, artificial light, and the measured use of color work in tandem, shifting the mood from active family life to quieter evenings without changing the basic arrangement. The apartment reads as one composed interior, tuned through material choices rather than grand gestures.
Photography courtesy of ESFA architetti
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